Wabadebadoo

by Jens_Bits (warpaintandpixiedust), warpaintandpixiedust

Summary:

Set in the same universe as my sims Drabbles. Two nameless players make two sims and call them Nick and Charlie. But what happens when they leave the game playing and Nick and Charlie start to sense something about the world they’re living in.

(Can be read completely separate from all the other sims drabbles)

Notes:

This is my fic for the September Drabble fic challenge. It’s a part of the HS Drabble discord server.

So I was trying to figure out what to call this little fic of drabbles. So then I figured I would look up some common simlish, and it turns out there are some phrases that have translations. So this fic is also kind of called ‘I’m on fire.’

This is one continuous fic and will have a couple of POV’s and I’m just picking what prompt I feel like cos fuck dem rules, right?!

Huge massive shout out to my inspiration for the start of this series and for always encouraging me to be a sims menace Riley. Also huge shout out to those who came up with the prompts.

This isn’t beta’d (if you’re new to my fics then you’ve probably read the sentence I was too scared to ask many a time 🤭)

Chapter 1: Skip (Nick and Charlie)

“Char, do you ever feel like your memory skips over things?”

 

“What do you mean Nick?”

 

“I can remember moving to Willow Creek and into our house but before that it’s like my brain can’t quite remember.”

 

“Are you feeling okay? Let me feel your forehead… hmm you haven’t got a temperature.”

 

“Maybe I need a lie down.”

 

“What brought on this idea anyway?”

 

“Someone at work asked me how we met and I could recite it word for word.”

 

“I should hope so.”

 

“No what I mean is. Everything is like a story I tell myself not a memory.”

 

 

Chapter 2: Nail polish (players)

Notes:

Thank you all so much for the kudos and the comments on the first chapter. Here is the second this time we’re going back to the POV of the two people playing the sims. See you tomorrow for the next one

“You’ve got to promise not to hate me!”

 

“I can make no such promise, tell me what’s wrong.”

 

“Just know I’m sorry. I was playing the sims for a bit when I remembered I need to fix my nails.”

 

“Why would I hate you for nail polish?”

 

“That’s not it, I um, clicked save without thinking or checking, my phone was ringing.”

 

“Please just tell me what the fuck went wrong when you were fucking giving yourself a fucking manicure!”

 

“I can’t get them to do anything.”

 

“Like the woohoo glitch? That amount of woohooing is normal.”

 

“No. Much worse.”

Chapter 3: Fate (Nick and Charlie)

Notes:

Here’s the next Drabble! Thanks again to everyone for the kudos and comments and such.

See y’all tomorrow for the next one

“Nick this is off the wall, out of pocket, over the moon, crazy.”

 

“No, my sweet Charlie, this is our fate.”

 

“Nick, I am being so serious, you’re scaring me.”

 

“Charlie, do you trust me?”

 

“With my life.” 

 

“I can prove it, but we need to be smart, start small.”

 

“How?”

 

“Look for signs, glitches.”

 

“Like the matrix?”

 

“See that’s what I mean! We can reference that movie, I can tell you the plot, the actors but not when I saw it.”

 

“That’s normal right? Seeing a movie and not really remembering.”

 

“No, because no one has seen any movies.”

Notes:

If you wanna say hi or yap all things sims and Heartstopper follow me on tumblr or blusky

Chapter 4: Broken (Players)

Notes:

I want to preface this one by saying, if you’ve never played the sims (then you know true peace, go forth my friend be free /jk) I use a reference to motherlode in this chapter. Basically it’s a cheat code to get simoleons (or money).

Back in my day when playing the earlier versions I only knew the cheat for money where you had to type rosebud and a whole row of ;! And if you messed it up it was a nightmare. Anyway enough of my sims lore

Thanks again for all the comments and kudos. Posting this way earlier than usual cos I can’t sleep 🙃

“Maybe you left it running too long, it’s broken the save?”

 

“I’ve tried everything!”

 

“I sent a report to EA and Maxis for good measure but they were useless in helping with the woohoo glitch.”

 

“At least they seem to be okay.”

 

“Yeah, you’re right, they’re eating and doing all the needs.”

 

“They haven’t left the house.”

 

“Charlie’s still writing, or use motherlode.”

 

“We can figure this out, nothing bad will happen.”

 

“I think I’ve figured out why they haven’t left the house since you broke the game.”

 

“You have?”

 

“They can’t, see a plates in front of the door.” 

Chapter 5: Jumper/sweater (Nick and Charlie)

Chapter by warpaintandpixiedust

Summary:

The plate saga continues!

Posting earlier than usual because I once again up later than I should be.

Thanks for all the kudos and comments so far!

“Do you see it?”

 

“I see it.”

 

“Charlie, if you pull my jumper anymore it’s gonna tear.”

 

“What do we do?”

 

“I don’t know.”

 

“Why are there always fucking plates blocking everything?”

 

“I remember we woohooed in a bush cos one was by the bed.”

 

“I still don’t know why I got up from the table and left it there.”

 

“Okay let’s just leave the door maybe it will go away by itself. Things do that sometimes, right?”

 

“Yeah all the time.”

 

“Rubbish, plates, dirty clothes…”

 

“It’s normal when things move too, right? My desk, your treadmill…”

 

“All completely normal…”

Chapter 6: Cloud (Players)

Chapter by warpaintandpixiedust

Notes:

Here’s chapter 6.

The last time I actually played the sims was when I had discovered custom content, which is really fun to play with. It was like I could shop for all these clothes and hairs for my sims.

Thanks for reading and the kudos and comments!

“Just click and drag the plate to the bin.”

 

“I’ve tried! Do you think I’m stupid!?”

 

“Of course not!”

 

“Oh EA got back to me.”

 

“Go on.”

 

“They’ve suggested backing up the save to the cloud or on a hard drive and then try removing all custom content and reloading.”

 

“I’ve never played with custom content.”

 

“Really? It’s quite fun, you can download all these clothes and one time I found—”

 

“This is not the time! Help me figure out how to upload things to a fucking cloud or whatever.”

 

“I don’t think anyone truly understands the ways of clouds.”

Chapter 7: Decision (Nick and Charlie)

Notes:

This one is a tiny bit angsty but in a sims and plates kinda way.

Thanks again for reading and commenting and kudosing!

“Do you feel that?”

 

“Feel what?”

 

“That.”

 

“Nick, why are you whispering? What are you feeling?”

 

“It’s  a compulsion to get that stupid plate. I can feel my body wanting to move, like the decision has been taken away.”

 

“Is it kind of itchy?”

 

“YES!”

 

“I feel that all the time.”

 

“Me too, but never before this strongly. Charlie, how do I make it stop? Please make it go away.”

 

“It’s okay Nick, you’ll be okay. Give me your hand.”

 

“I’ve got to do it Charlie, I’m sorry I can’t control my decision.”

 

“It’s okay Nick, we’ll do it together.”

Chapter 8: Train (Players)

Chapter by Jens_Bits (warpaintandpixiedust)

Notes:

Day 8! Wow I made it past a week of daily uploads. I’ve never been this consistent at anything in my life!

Thanks for reading!

“I must have clicked for Nick to pick up that plate a hundred times.”

 

“Maybe we should do what EA suggested.”

 

“I haven’t downloaded custom content it’s all strictly from expansion packs -“

 

“Wait Nicks going to the door.”

 

“We’ve got to train them. You know, get them to listen to us again.”

 

“Train them? That could work, might take some time.”

 

“Charlie’s following him everywhere now.”

 

“He’s moving slow but at least he’s got the damn plate.”

 

“Why does every sim insist on washing their plates in the bathroom sink? The kitchen sink is literally closer.”

 

“Something still feels off.”

Chapter 9: Moonlight (Nick and Charlie)

Chapter by Jens_Bits (warpaintandpixiedust)

Notes:

I realised after I wrote this it isn’t super duper clear which is Nick and which is Charlie. But I kinda liked that so it’s a stylist choice now!

Thank you for reading!

“Why don’t we go for a walk to clear our heads?”

 

“It’s dark out.”

 

“A stroll under the moonlight?”

 

“Okay that sounds romantic I’m in.”

 

“The fresh air is making me feel better already.”

 

“I like holding your hand while we walk. Why don’t we do that more?”

 

“…I don’t know, it’s never really occurred to me.”

 

“Like it’s felt impossible before.”

 

“Holding hands in the moonlight with my boyfriend.”

 

“I don’t want to go back.”

 

“Neither do I.”

 

“What are you doing?”

 

“Walking backwards so I can see your pretty face.”

 

“I’ve never thought about doing that.”

 

“Me neither.”

Notes:

If you wanna say hi or yap all things sims and Heartstopper follow me on tumblr or blusky

Series this work belongs to:

• Part 2 of The Sims drabbles